It features the titular Speed Racer ( Emile Hirsch) characters with their same basic personalities thrown into a racing world where corporate greed determines everything.
These included jacks that let it vault barriers selectable tire treads for any terrain, including vertical cliffs a rotary saw to slash through wooded obstacles a bullet-proof escape capsule vision enhancement gear gear for operating underwater, including a periscope and a homing robot to summon help when Trixie's not around. Advertisement: Speed Racer is a 2008 film based off of the anime series Speed Racer, directed and written by The Wachowskis. be the new Speed Racer if the mysterious Racer X wasn't on board to give Speed. The movie's Mach 5 reportedly is an actual car, but all its special effects were computer-generated.įor those who have not memorized the 52 cartoon episodes dubbed into English from the original Japanese in 1967 (which then went into rerun immortality, showing up even on MTV and the Cartoon Network), Speed's Mach 5 had an array of push-buttons on its steering wheel that engaged special mechanical abilities. Speed's female friend, Trixie, looks totally unrecognizable as a blonde.
SPEED RACER CHARACTERS PLUS
Live actors portray Speed and Trixie, plus the other stock characters from the series: Mom and Pop Racer, Sparky (their mechanic), Spritle (Speed's younger brother), Chim Chim (Spritle's pet chimpanzee), Rex (Speed's older brother) and Inspector Detector. Making impossible turns, bad guys in pursuit, with girlfriend Trixie always ready to help with her trusty pink helicopter, Speed Racer and his Mach 5 race-car have entertained several generations of moppets willing to overlook the fact that Speed's mouth movements failed to sync up with his voice.Ī new version of "Speed Racer" takes to the big screen on Friday as a Warner Bros.
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